The Mystery Behind SharePoint 2010 Patching

I came across this great posting from Jie Li while looking around Stefan Goßner’s blog at http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/ and thought it would make interesting reading for the Project audience too. One word of caution first – Jie Li mentions the well known SharePoint practice of detaching content databases while applying patches so that you can upgrade them at your leisure later – once you have re-attached them. Project Server databases (Archive, Draft, Published and Reporting) ARE NOT content databases – please do no detach these while patching or you will get into an inconsistent state that may cause you (and then me and my support colleagues) big problems…